Board of Directors

South Carolina Victim Assistance Network Board of Directors
*President* Brett Macgargle Driector, Office of Delinquency Prevention, SC Dept. of Juvenile Justice	Director for the Office of Community Justice (OCJ), manages the staff and various activities in the OCJ for the South Carolina Department of Juvenile Justice. In this role, he is responsible for developing prevention and intervention programs to deal with at-risk youth and ensuring that victims receive services as mandated by law in the Department's institutions, residential services, and community probation and parole offices. From 1987 to 1995, Mr. Macgargle served as State Director of Victim Services for the South Carolina Department of Probation, Parole and Pardon Services (SCDPPS) where he developed, implemented, and administered one of the nation's first statewide programs to provide crime victims greater access to, and participation in, the process of community corrections. From 1983 to 1987, he served as a Probation/Parole Officer with SCDPPS, having come into probation and parole from a career as a police officer. Mr. Macgargle has an associate's and bachelor's degree in Criminal Justice, and a master's degree in Public Administration and has served as college instructor and adjunct faculty in the Criminal Justice Department of Midlands Technical College and Benedict College in Columbia, South Carolina. Brett has contributed numerous literary publications and is a national consultant in the field of victim services.
Secretary/Treasurer Ritchie Tidwell Tidwell & Associates, Inc.	.Mr. Ritchie Tidwell is the owner and president of Tidwell and Associates, Inc., a consulting firm in Columbia, South Carolina. He holds a B.S. degree in Journalism from the University of Florida and an M.S. degree in Criminology from Florida State University. Mr. Tidwell previously served as Director of the Division of Public Safety Programs in the S.C. Governor's Office with responsibility for criminal/juvenile justice, highway safety and crime prevention programs. Mr. Tidwell coordinated efforts with other state level victim advocates to create a state level victim advocacy organization outside of government, which became the S.C. Victim Assistance Network. After leaving the Governor's Office and beginning his consulting career, Mr. Tidwell has been involved in several projects which impacted victims of crime, including: A five-year follow-up assessment of the Crime Victims Bill of Rights in South Carolina. The project included surveys of policy makers, victim advocates and crime victims. The report includes major recommendations for improving services to crime victims. An analysis of crime data by county for spouse abuse and sexual assault, projected unreported crime, developed a profile of services and unmet needs, and utilized a formula for projecting staffing and funding needs. Assessment of the status of crime victim's services in South Carolina, analyzed caseloads, staffing and funding for victim services, projected funding needs for the future, and prepared a master plan for victim services in the future. Was co-project director for an assessment of practices relating to the handling of child victims in criminal court in three states and a model protocol developed for how the court system should handle such cases in the future. Was co-investigator for a project to analyze the potential number of crime victims in South Carolina who experience post-traumatic stress syndrome. The report also projected the number of crime victims entering the mental health intake system and made numerous recommendations to improve the Department of Mental Health response to crime victims. Was the lead evaluator for a project designed to provide services to current and future child victims of violence in five Florida counties.
*Members*
Margaret C. Frierson National Center for Missing & Exploited Children/SC	Ms. Frierson has served over fifteen years as Executive Director of the South Carolina branch of the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, formerly known as the Adam Walsh Center. She has worked as a consultant for the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, providing training to law enforcement, non-profits, and victim advocates. Ms. Frierson previously served as the On-Site statewide coordinator for the Missing and Exploited Children Comprehensive Action Program (M/CAP) in South Carolina to enhance the delivery of services to child victims and their families. The South Carolina Victim Assistance Standards and Certification Board has designated Ms. Frierson as a Certified Victim Assistance Specialist. She is presently a Board Member of the South Carolina Victim Assistance Network where she serves as Chairman of the Children's Legislative Committee. In addition, Ms. Frierson has been appointed to represent victim issues as a Committee Member of the SC Public Safety Coordinating Council. Also, Ms. Frierson is a Board Member of Team H.O.P.E., a national parent support network for families of missing children. Ms. Frierson holds a Bachelor of Science Degree from the College of Charleston, and serves as a member of the Alumni Board. In 1992, the College of Charleston honored Ms.Frierson naming her "Outstanding Young Alumna of the Year".
Dean Kilpatrick, Ph.D. Director, National Crime Victims Research & Treatment Center	.Dean G. Kilpatrick, Ph.D. is Professor of Clinical Psychology and Director of the National Crime Victims Research and Treatment Center at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, SC. He is also Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-funded National Violence Against Women Prevention Research Center. He has been involved in the crime victims' rights field since 1974 when he became a founding member of People Against Rape, a Charleston-based rape crisis center. His primary research interests include measuring the prevalence of rape, other violent crimes, and other types of potentially traumatic events as well as assessing the mental health impact of such events. Dr. Kilpatrick and his colleagues at the NCVC have conducted three extramurally funded studies investigating these topics using national household probability samples of adults and adolescents. His research has been funded by a variety of federal agencies including the National Institute of Mental Health, National Institute on Drug Abuse, and the National Institute of Justice. He has over 100 peer reviewed publications, over 50 book chapters and monographs, and over 300 presentations at scientific and professional meetings. Dr. Kilpatrick was a consultant to the Bureau of Justice Statistics regarding changes in measurement of sexual assault in the National Crime Victim Survey. He has provided invited testimony on the topics of rape and sexual harassment to committees of the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate. In 1990, President George Bush presented Dr. Kilpatrick with the President's Award for Outstanding Service for Victims of Crime, the nation's highest award in the crime victims' field. He is the immediate Past-President of the South Carolina Psychological Association and the Editor of the Journal of Traumatic Stress (a scientifically-based, peer-reviewed journal, on traumatic stress).
Lawrence H. Bergmann, Ph. D. Post Trauma Resources	LAWRENCE H. BERGMANN, PH.D. is the director of Post Trauma Resources, Columbia, South Carolina. For more than twenty years, the agency has provided specialized services to crime victims as well as survivors of work-related, personal and duty-related trauma. The staff responds on site to over 150 potentially traumatic events each year including robberies, industrial accidents and workplace death and injury. Dr. Bergmann also serves on the Governor's advisory board to the State Office of Victims Assistance and holds the position of Health and Safety Consultant with Columbia (SC) Fire Department.
Vicki Bourus Executive Director, SCCADVASA	Vicki is currently serving as the Executive Director of SCCADVASA (South Carolina Coalition Against Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault). Vicki is a licensed, Master's prepared social worker and has worked extensively with victims of domestic and sexual assault and child abuse. She has been involved in providing services to and advocating for victims of domestic and sexual assault since 1986 and has provided both consultation and training to law enforcement officers, medical and legal professionals and social workers in the identification, assessment and treatment of victims of both sexual and domestic violence and other related issues. She served on the Domestic Violence Task Force of the SC Criminal Justice Academy in 1987-88 and was nominated for a "Woman of Achievement" Award from the SC Commission on Women in 1991.

Hope Blackley Solicitor Victim Advocate, 7th Circuit Solicitor's Office	-Graduate of South Carolina State University -Former leader with the YMCA Teen Achiever Mentoring Program -Former Chairman of the Solicitors' Victim Advocate Forum Conference Committee -Volunteer with Upward Bound College Program (USCS) -Member of the Piedmont Assembly Board of Governors -Chairman of Marshall Nomination Committee (Piedmont Assembly) -Vice President of the Solicitors' Victim Advocate Forum
*Ex_Officio Members*
Gwen Herod Victim Advocate, Sumter County Sheriff's Dept.	.
Salor Fox Victim Assistance Coordinator, Juvenile Parole Board	.
Don Zelenka Assistant Deputy Attorney General, Attorney General's Office	Don Zelenka is currently Assistant Deputy Attorney General and Chief of Capital and Collateral Litigation in the SC Attorney General’s Office. He is a graduate of The Ohio State University (1974) and the USC School of Law (1977). He is licensed to practice law in SC, Virginia and numerous federal courts, including the United States Supreme Court. Mr. Zelenka has been with the Attorney General’s Office since 1979, primarily handling criminal conviction appeals and federal habeas corpus actions on behalf of the state, although he has also handled jury trials from traffic offenses to capital murder and public corruption during his tenure. Currently, he supervises the prosecution of all murder appeals, federal habeas corpus actions and capital litigation brought by South Carolina inmates. Mr. Zelenka has personally orally argued six (6) cases before the United States Supreme Court, over 100 cases in the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, including ten (10) en banc arguments and numerous cases in the state appellate courts. He has also prosecuted murder cases in the trial courts in South Carolina. Under former Attorney General T. Travis Medlock, he was named Chief Deputy Attorney General over the Criminal Division from 1984 through 1995.
Renee Mattox US Attorneys Office Victim Advocate for SC
Mary Ann Stroup Victim Advocate, Greenwood Sheriff's Office	.